"Right now, I'd settle for that mess we inherited back in '69!" Newton Pratt on Nixon’s combined crises of an endless, expanding war and economic decline.
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"Right now, I'd settle for that mess we inherited back in '69!" Newton Pratt on Nixon’s combined crises of an endless, expanding war and economic decline.
Ric Hugo on Nixon’s haphazard, dangerous Vietnam War policies, May 1970.
“Much of it depends on which side of the bed he gets up on in the morning.” Paul Conrad on Nixon’s shifting Vietnam War policies, May 1970.
Still keep an eye out for European tours.
Flying over Priest Lake, Nashville.
Brand new Lemon Twigs single. Catchy, Beatle-y. youtu.be/TqCUlPDcPoE?...
It’s won and it’s not won. Schrödinger's war.
Cover of the Oberlin College student magazine The Activist, Winter 1969. Cover design by Charles Southern.
A 1963-64 anti-communist educational graphic. Case closed.
1934 OK Methodist Conf minutes: “it is our conviction that war is sin and unchristian and contrary to the principles and teachings of Jesus…We oppose wholeheartedly any form of compulsory military training in any schools or colleges. We endorse the Senate investigation of the munitions business.”
A photo of the home of Martin Luther King Jr's brother, AD King, after segregationists bombed it in May 1963.
“In the days after President Trump launched U.S. forces in an attack against Iran, support for the strikes is far lower than what it has been at the beginnings of previous foreign conflicts.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
That one guy in your 20th century US history course
Staffing issues
There were, fortunately, some fundamentalist pack rats that collected all this
Bob Jones University.
Working through a batch of anti-communist and anti-civil rights documents.
"New hand in the newsroom." Herblock, WaPo, 6/25/1971. In 1971, the Nixon admin tried to use prior restraint to stop the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the "Pentagon Papers" concerning the Vietnam War.
"Air supremacy." Herblock, WaPo, 8/21/1970. The Nixon admin threatened FCC regulation of networks to shape reporting on the war etc. Reuters: "Nixon and his top aides discussed using the FCC's license renewal process to punish the Washington Post for its coverage of Watergate..."
Relevant one from the archives today, SF Chronicle, 4/28/1962.
On the side of a main road in Greenville. There’s a story here…
The Hulk and John Show
“An overnight explosion at the US embassy in Oslo may have been an act of terrorism, Norway's police have said. The embassy in the Norwegian capital sustained minor damage after the blast in the early hours of Sunday—but no-one was injured.”
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Gas prices heat map
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How To Do Things With (Trump's) Words.
We’re days away from Trump having a roundtable to rank potato salads.
Pat Oliphant illustrates the New Right waiting for Reagan, August 11, 1982.
